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Experts debate the Syrian crisis in age of Facebook

Three panelists looked at the Syrian crisis in a campus event Nov. 25 from historical and political perspectives.

Sex abuse triggers early puberty and its problems

Sexually abused girls reach puberty before other girls, a new study finds, and early puberty increases their risk of having emotional problems.

Facebook supports open-source software course

Students in "Open-Source Software Engineering" work with industry mentors and worldwide teams on real-world projects.

Jesuit: God and science are not incompatible

A Jesuit priest argued that faith can inform science rather than impede it in the semiannual Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society on campus Nov. 11.

New website is 'one-stop shop' for climate change info

The new website, climatechange.cornell.edu, is a one-stop shop for everything climate change. It's searchable and includes research, outreach programs and issue-specific pages.

Cushing Strout, professor emeritus of English, dies

S. Cushing Strout, professor emeritus in the Department of English, died Nov. 21 in Ithaca at age 90.

Freshman ranks No. 2 among U.S. chess players

Freshman Adarsh Jayakumar, ranked No. 2 among 18-year-old U.S. chess players, incorporates his love of chess with his Cornell studies.

Cornell loses a friend, but not a partnership

In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Alan Mathios talks about the legacy of Don Tobias, executive director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension - New York City, who died Nov. 22.

Your phone can spy on you, new book warns

A book by Cornell engineering professor Stephen Wicker warns that surveillance is built into the cellular phone system.

Lab 'rats' respond to tax on unhealthy foods

Menu-price experiments by Cornell economists show that excise taxes on unhealthy foods might cut calories and cholesterol from Americans’ lunch menus.

Student energy group saves Cornell $35,000

The student group Energy Corps has already saved Cornell money and hopes to increase its impact through more energy-saving projects.

Better elephant stimulation needed to get good sperm

A Cornell and Smithsonian Institution study published in PLOS-ONE has found that how sperm is collected in Asian elephants matters in preserving this endangered species.